Should I let Northwestern (ED) know when I moved to US?

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Hi guys. I just made my account to ask this question,

so I moved to California in 7th grade from an asian-speaking country, I took ESL in 7th grade and that’s it.
i went to very competitive high school from 9th to 10th grade and I was in their accelerated program / IB program.
I took all honors except for classes like ROTC, computer logic, fundamentals of program, and chinese.
But then I moved to less competitive, but still very competitive school after sophomore year.
I still take mostly AP classes, and i started 9th grade with English honors, and took ap lang in sophomore year.
But my grades/scores are not solid or strong.
And i was wondering if I should email Northwestern to let them know I moved to US in 7th grade? Like would that explain why I’m doing not so well in my english classes ? (I applied northwestern ED, chemistry major)
For my common app essay, I wrote about why i transferred because everyone told me writing about moving to US is super cliche and boring. And I didn’t mention moving to US in any part of my application.
Now since 12/15 is coming up, I’m just so paranoid and I just want to try everything to raise my chance of getting accepted at least by little bit./
Would emailing them to let them know about my situation would even help me? or would is just be pointless…
BTW i do have green card

My stats are
ACT composite: 33 (30 E, 35 M, 31 R, 35 S)
GPA: 4.41 W, 3.74 UW
SAT math level 2:800
sat korean: 800
SAT chemistry: 740
AP Euro 4, AP lang 4, AP chem 4, APUSH 4, AP Calc AB 5

course load:
sophomore- AP Lang&Comp, AP euro
junior- English IB HL, AP chem, AP calc AB, APUSH
senior- AP psych, AP chinese, AP lit, AP calc BC, AP physics 1 (I couldn’t take AP Econ/gov because of master schedule issue)

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Surely there is something in the minutiae of your app that indicates when you started in a US school, when you were admitted to the country, and when you got your GC. I imagine you had to copy your GC and do extra legwork for that particular aspect?

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Pointless. You don’t get a pass because you were not born here. International students do not get a pass because their native language is not English. You obviously speak English well, as demonstrated by your scores. What you are proposing is making excuses at best, whining at worst. Neither will serve you well.

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Oh yeah, I just realized it. Thanks!

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Okay, thank you for your advice!

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Your stats are already really good in ED pool, do not worry too much. (And I finally find the applicants like me, immigrants, LOL

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The very first page of the common app asked you whether or not you are a US citizen, where you were born, and how many years you have lived in the US. Did you complete this question accurately? If so, you have already given the admissions office the information.

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I hope they are :slight_smile: YAY immigrants squad

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I did! and I completely forgot that we had that section LOL thanks!